Aaron Rodgers is spotted in Pittsburgh, getting ice cream with Steelers players
Even for a gradual weekend, preliminary accounts on social media of free-agent quarterback Aaron Rodgers supposedly getting ice cream with a number of Steelers players in Pittsburgh did not initially transfer the needle.
Beyond the fundamental incontrovertible fact that bullshit is at present ubiquitous on Twitter, it wasn’t fully clear that it was Rodgers — or that the video posted by @brogey412 was latest (the presence of pumpkin on the menu sparked a facet debate as to when the video was taken). Now that a number of members of conventional media are passing it alongit is price a point out.
It’s unclear what all of it means. There’s been no indication that the Steelers and Rodgers have agreed to phrases on a contract. Or that you’ve visited the Steelers. Or that something is imminent. It exhibits solely that Rodgers was bodily in Pittsburgh as of final night time. Which is no completely different than the place he was per week in the past.
That mentioned, OTAs begin Monday. If Rodgers indicators and exhibits up, he’ll be formally becoming a member of the staff a number of weeks earlier than he did a 12 months in the past. In 2025, he arrived for the necessary minicamp that capped the offseason program. If he indicators by Monday, he’ll be out there for the total slate of OTAs and the necessary minicamp.
It’s attainable Rodgers merely waited till the schedule was launched, in order to stop the league from giving the Steelers a extra burdensome schedule of standalone video games. Two years in the past, the NFL saddled Rodgers and the Jets six early-season prime-time video games — and a pair of quick weeks — below the rationale that “the Jets kind of owe us one” given Rodgers’s Week 1 torn Achilles tendon in 2023.
As it stands, the Steelers have 4 night time video games. That resolution presumably presumes they will have Rodgers; Without him, the Steelers arguably do not have a quarterback room that is prepared for prime-time.
Regardless, Rodgers apparently is nonetheless in Pittsburgh. Whether (or maybe when) he’ll be signing with the Steelers stays to be seen.
